Barbara Lee

Barbara Lee (16 July 1946-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CA 9) from 21 April 1998 to 3 January 2013, succeeding Ron Dellums and preceding Jerry McNerney, and from CA 13 from 3 January 2013, succeeding Pete Stark.

Biography
Barbara Tutt was born in El Paso, Texas in 1946, and she served as President of the Mills College Black Student Union before serving as Shirley Chisholm's delegate at the 1972 Democratic National Convention and before working on Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale's 1973 Oakland mayoral campaign. In 1990, she was elected to the California State Assembly, serving until 1996, when she was elected to the State Senate. She served until 1998, when she was elected to the US House of Representatives. She was a liberal, but she opposed foreign intervention in Yugoslavia and Iraq.